Followers of Iraqi cleric split after tweets

Moqtada Sadr, an enigmatic Shiite cleric who shot to prominence years ago by battling U.S. occupation troops with his notorious Mahdi Army, has built a cultlike following across Iraq and controls the largest parliamentary bloc. But the head-spinning back-and-forth of Sadr’s positions, usually by tweet, has stuck a wedge in his millions-strong base, even his followers say.